Q 01/05

Which historian and Omega Psi Phi member urged the fraternity to launch the week that grew into Black History Month?

A) W. E. B. Du Bois

B) Carter G. Woodson

C) John Hope Franklin

D) Arturo Schomburg

Answer · why

B) Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson pressed his fraternity brothers in 1924 to hold Negro History and Literature Week. Two years later his own association took it natio...

Q 02/05

Which Omega Psi Phi member won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls after starring in college at North Carolina?

A) Scottie Pippen

B) Dennis Rodman

C) Michael Jordan

D) Horace Grant

Answer · why

C) Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan is one of the athletes the fraternity lists among its notable brothers. He was named NBA Finals MVP six times, a league record.

Q 03/05

Omega Psi Phi lawyers Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson and James Nabrit worked on which 1954 Supreme Court case?

A) Brown v. Board of Education

B) Plessy v. Ferguson

C) Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg

D) Loving v. Virginia

Answer · why

A) Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education outlawed segregated public schools. The three men sat in the inner circle of the legal defense fund that coordinated the c...

Q 04/05

Which Omega Psi Phi member, a 7-foot-1 center, won three straight NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers from 2000?

A) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

B) Shaquille O'Neal

C) David Robinson

D) Hakeem Olajuwon

Answer · why

B) Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille O'Neal, a three-time NBA Finals MVP, was first drafted by the Orlando Magic with the top pick of 1992. He added a fourth ring with the Miami...

Q 05/05

Which Omega Psi Phi member, a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance, published the collection The Weary Blues in 1926?

A) Countee Cullen

B) Claude McKay

C) Paul Laurence Dunbar

D) Langston Hughes

Answer · why

D) Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes belonged to Beta chapter at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where he graduated after dropping out of Columbia. He was an early inn...